Ludum Dare #44compo

Moneyman and Pennyboy

by captaindreamcast

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.41

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.89

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.26

David Osh is one of the most despicable people on this planet, maybe even worse than corporate lawyers: By spending excessive amounts of money on pay-to-win mechanics in his favorite game, Battleshoot, he dominates its rankings. However, his life gets turned upside down when the "legendary gamer witch" turns out to be a bad loser and turns him into money! Will David become human again? Will he grow as a character? Will the Ludum Dare deadline keep killing everything it touches? All these things will be revealed in Moneyman and Pennyboy!

Note: Press R to restart a level, the mystical tutorial hobo forgot to mention that.
Update: Added a root folder to the zipped Windows file, because I know there are some strong feelings regarding those out there + linked assets into the exe (they're still on github if you're curious and/or terminally bored) + Dreamcast port.

Tags: #2d, #dumb_protagonist, #money

Genres: platformer

Comments15

AndideBob29 Apr 2019, 07:45

Oh boy if I don't have a new favorite super-hero! God this game is fun and the puzzles actually had me confused from time to time. A solid entry and a lot of fun!

Ayced1 May 2019, 10:24

Just frustrating enough to keep me playing lol

Weine1 May 2019, 10:24

A game must happen! Very literal take on the theme, but somhow you got the puzzles to fit with the theme. I'm just sad I can't play it on a DreamCast.

TurboSocks1 May 2019, 10:36

Neat game, the characters were quite entertaining. I enjoyed the puzzles, well done!

Hugimugi71 May 2019, 10:36

Those spikes were hilarious! Cool take on the theme, I especially loved the story and characters. :grin:

JofersGames1 May 2019, 10:38

Really fun creative way of using the killing yourself to get smaller mechanic by one of my favourite devs :)

I love it 5/5 for everything :D

cheesepencil1 May 2019, 17:02

Fun, but hit detection on the edges of the single-block platforms is flakey... sometimes I land right on top but slide off the side!

CaptainDreamcastauthor1 May 2019, 17:47

Yeah, I noticed the platform thing too, but I couldn't fix it in time.
I also noticed it's the type of bug that appears when you least want it, like just before the end of the level. A very powerful bug, borderline Psycho Mantis in nature

rsim3 May 2019, 04:52

Great game! The platform mechanics were surprisingly good - to the point that I wasn't expecting jumping to work so well (including off-block time for jumps) that it actually made the game impossible until I found that out. Well done!

Copper_Aardvark_Games3 May 2019, 21:38

I loved this game. The mechanics are very smooth and it's at the perfect level difficulty that makes you cant stop playing and I absolutely love that in a game. Great job!

h.m.murdock4 May 2019, 18:26

Nice intro and story
So catchy to play, nice conversations and funny
One of the best games!
Very sweet game mechanics and puzzles
I was a bit sad that there was one level you can catch the wallet without solving the puzzle :(
Shame the music isn't a perfect loop

Amerigo Gazaway5 May 2019, 07:17

This is great! One of the funniest games I've played so far. The artwork and dialogue had me cracking up. Also really clever mechanics with the dollar/coin/gold switching.

Skoggy5 May 2019, 07:23

It doesn't load on my Dreamcast?
Nice game, a bit too much text for my taste, also fell of the level once on the side. Other than that it works pretty good and fits the theme well. Good job!

candlesan5 May 2019, 07:47

Catchy music. Fun characters. It's neat to play a game with a story to tell. I think I got stuck at one point when I picked up a bunch of coins and then fell into a pit and couldn't jump anymore. Clever mehcanics.

CaptainDreamcastauthor5 May 2019, 11:06

@skoggy I'm sorry the Dreamcast version didn't load for you. I tested it on my Dreamcast, just redownloaded and burned to see if it still works and it still runs on my machine. It should show the modified license screen, then start the game. If it doesn't even show the license screen, I suppose something went wrong during burning. Otherwise, I can't say much, the huge advantage of console development is supposed to be that every machine is the same, so this is weird.

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